The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-01-07
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL.

Governors were lnaugurated as follows: Jan.
! /, Hill, of New York and F'itzhugh Lee, of Vir-
| ginia; Jan. Z, Robinson, of Massachusetts; Jan.
| II, Foraker of On s; Jan. Ia, Larrabee, of
Iowa, and Lowry, of Mississippi.
| United States Senators elected: Jan. T.,
John Sherman, OF hio; Jan 49, A. P. German
| of Maryland, ana Jan Il, e. G. Walthall and j.
| f. George Of Misslieippi.
Jan. lS--Presidan' ll-Snccession bill and act
| leg alzing Wyoming Territorial Legislature APP
| proved
Jan. 21-Henry Lloyd elected Governor of
Ma yland, vice Governor McLane, appointed
Minister to France
Jan. 22--Dorman B. Eaton, Civil Service Com
Jan. 25-Dnlttd States Judge Love sustained
constitutionality OF the Iowa Prohibition law at
| Keokuk
Jan. 96-John Kelly reelected chief Of the
Tammany Society, at New York
Feb. 10-The President nominated Stephen
| A. Walker to succeed Mr.. Dorsheimer as United
| States Attorney for the Southern district of
| New York.
| Feb. 1.-THE President nominated w. w.
Sutton as United States Assistant Treasurer at
| Cincinnati, 0.
Feb. Irrational Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton met in eighteenth annual convention at
| Washington.
| Feb. 18-Fitz-John Porter bill passed by the
| House.
Feb. 22-Thomas R. Hudd succeeded the late
| Joseph Rankin in Congress.
| Feb. PA liquor bill, similar to the old Scott
| law, passed by the Ohio Legislature.
| Feb. 25-Marriage of Thomas A. Edison, at
Akron, O., to Miss Mini Miller.
Mar. Investigating Committee of the New
| York Senate reported that the Broadway rail-
| way charter was obtained by bribery, and both
| Houses passed a law requiring the franchise to
| be sold to the highest bidder on the 18th inst.
Mar. 10-The President sent his first veto to
| the Senate, concerning the restoration of Lieu
| tenant Calls McBlair to the retired list of the
army.
Mar. 1.-THE President vetoed the bill for
the relief of settlers on the Des Moines river
! lands, in Iowa.
Mar. PA special committee of the House of
Representatives began an inquiry in Washing
ton into the issuance of Pan-Electric stock to
officers of the Government.
| Mar. 16-Major- General Pope was retired
from the War Department. The President
nominate : w. N. Trenholm, of South Carolina.
as Comptroller Of the Currency; and John H.
Oberly, of Illinois, and Charles Lyman, of Con
necticut as Civil Service Commissioners; APP
proved by the Senate April 6.
Mar. 1.-THE Government decided to bring
suit against the Bell Telephone Company.
Mar. 18-General Alfred H Terry elected
Major General vice Winfield Scott Hancock,
deceased.
Mar 19-President Cleveland approved the
bill to increase the pension of widows and rela-
tives Of deceased soldiers and sailors.
Mar. Ex-Governor Stoneman, of California,
appointed George Hearst as United States Sen
ator, in place of John Miller.
Mar. ID, 451 200 acres of land in California
taken from the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Company, by decision of the Secretary OF the
Interior.
Mar 25-The Postmaster-General informed
the Senate that 86l5 fourth-class postmasters
had been removed during the first year of the
Democratic Administration .. George Peabot
Whitmore renomjnated for Governor by the Re-
publicans of Rhode Island.
Apr. 5-Caleb w. West of Kentucky an
pointed as Governor of Utah by the President
Apr. 12-Brigadier-General Miles succeeded
Brigadier-G General Crook, in Arizona.
Apr. 19-Att orney- General Garland testified
before the Telephone Investigation Committee
at Washington.
May s-The four Republicans from Hamilton
County were sworn into the Ohio State Senate
May 14-Henry F. SeVerns, Of Kalamazoo,
Mi h, appointed judge for the Western dis
trict of Michigan. to succeed S. L Whitney
May disappointment trial Of Auditor Brown,
of Iowa, commenced at Des Moines. Found not
guilty OF charges and reinstated.
May BOB II permitting women to practice
New York. N. S. Wallace succeeded Michael
Hahn to the Second Louisiana Congress. onal
district.
May 7-ohio Woman's Suffrage Convention,
in session at Cleveland, elected Mrs. Frances
Easement, of gainesville, president.
June wedding of President Cleveland and
Miss Frances Folsom took place at the White
House.
July 7-Presldent Cleveland vetoed bill con-
structing railroads through Indian reservation
in Northern Montana.
June Ex-Governor Hill signed the amend
ment making the term of Imprisonment for
debt x months in New York.
Jure .3-Judge Str y Matthews, of the
United States Supreme Court, married to Mrs
Mary Theaker, OF Cleveland o.
June 27-Willianl e. Smith, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury, resigned, and Hugh S.
Thompson was chosen his successor.
July 12-Hugh S. Thompson qualified as As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury.
Juiy2I-S. p. Rou Ids, Government Printer
purchased Omaha Republican. Opening of
S8ngerfest at Milwaukee, Wis.
July 27-W. w. Porter confirmed as United
St.Tes Justice Of Supreme Court of Arizona
aug. 2-J. H. Bowden, Joseph Barbour and
j. Q. Ward elected Superior Judges for Ken
lucky President signed Oleomargarine bill
Aug. ga. P. Williams elected United States
Senator from California
Aug. 9-President reappointed W. c.
Matthews, colored, as recorder of deeds, Dis
trict of Columbia
ANg. 17-First extradition treaty between
United States and an oriental nation accepted
by japan. Promulgated by President Dec. 2
Aug. 27-Thomas E. Benedict appointed Pub
lie Printer at Washington.
Sept. 6-P. II. Hughes elected Governor Of ar
kansas.
Sept. fudge Thomas c. Manning, of Louis
lana, appointed to succeed United States Minis
ter Jackson. to Mexico.
Sept I7-Governor BodWen (Rep.) elected
Chief Executive of Maine
Sept. sS-Subcommittee of Committee on
Foreign Relations of United States, COM
menced at Boston to investigate the fishery
question.